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B.C. wine consumers will soon get some help determining whether the wine they’re drinking is really made from B.C. grapes. The newly-formed B.C. Wine Appellation Task Group, including 11 leading B.C. wine producers, will make recommendations on how to improve the appellation system for wine produced from 100 per cent B.C. grapes and the B.C. Vintners Quality Alliance program (BC VQA), Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick announced Friday.

Western Canada’s largest not-for-profit theatre company announced its 52nd season, which will open the new West First Stage in November with the children’s themed Peter and the Starcatcher about how Peter Pan became Peter Pan.

Molson Coors will close the bottling line and lay off staff at its brewery on Burrard Street in Vancouver, citing changing consumer tastes and government subsidies that favour smaller breweries. In an announcement last week, the company said its decision was based on “careful consideration and evaluation of the brewery operations, combined with the need to address the changing trends in consumer demand and the overall industry.”

Wilfried Vicktor, a former Hope councillor, mayor, and school trustee, was elected mayor of Hope on Saturday, with 913 votes. Four candidates were vying for the mayor’s chair, including longtime resident and Chamber of Commerce director Lloyd Forman, Hope Brewing Company owner Glen Ogren, businesswoman and former rancher Cindy Young and Vicktor, who had previously served as Hope’s mayor for two terms. Mayor Susan Johnston decided not to seek re-election.

Wilfried Vicktor, a former Hope councillor, mayor, and school trustee, was elected mayor of Hope on Saturday, with 913 votes. Four candidates were vying for the mayor’s chair, including longtime resident and Chamber of Commerce director Lloyd Forman, Hope Brewing Company owner Glen Ogren, businesswoman and former rancher Cindy Young and Vicktor, who had previously served as Hope’s mayor for two terms. Mayor Susan Johnston decided not to seek re-election.

The price of a litre of bottled water in B.C. is often higher than a litre of gasoline. However, the price paid by the world's largest bottled water company for taking 265 million litres of fresh water every year from a well in the Fraser Valley - not a cent.

Quick, name three big Dutch beer makers. If you said Heineken, Grolsch and Bavaria, you deserve a free pint. They are the three largest breweries in the Netherlands, and Heineken (which also brews Amstel) is one of the biggest in the world.

Our mission was simple: pack as much into 48 hours in Squamish as possible. After a sprightly drive up Highway 99 our first stop was Britannia Mining Museum in Britannia, where we climbed aboard a mine train and chugged into the mountain just like miners did in 1914.

A craft beer revolution is foam-enting in East Vancouver. It’s broken out big time in the Brewery Creek area around Main Street, the historic home of brewing in the city, and where once again suds are flowing freely.